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PBS 13, 83 (P268720)

Legal tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Museum Collection(s)

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Museum Number

CBS 13707

Period

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Provenience

Nippur (mod. Nuffar)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Legal (Contract; adjustment betw/brothers, sons of Nabu^-Ze^r-uki~n; duplicate of 13708; (Obv)20x(Rev)14 lines)

Language(s)

Akkadian

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Collections

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet
Material: Clay
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Artifact Preservation: fragment
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Text Information

Genre(s): Legal (Contract; adjustment betw/brothers, sons of Nabu^-Ze^r-uki~n; duplicate of 13708; (Obv)20x(Rev)14 lines)
Language(s): Akkadian

Related publications

primary: PBS 13, 83

[Legrain1922PBS13] Legrain, Léon. 1922. Historical Fragments. Publications of the Babylonian Section 13. University Museum, Pennsylvania. http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/14913.pdf.
citation: JCS 35 (pp. 1-90), M.3

[Brinkman1983JCS35] Brinkman, John A., and Douglas A. Kennedy. 1983. “Documentary Evidence for the Economic Base of Early Neo-Babylonian Society: A Survey of Dated Babylonian Economic Texts, 721-626 B.C.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 35 (1–2): 1–90.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: CBS 13707
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Provenience

Provenience: Nippur (mod. Nuffar)
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Chronology

Period: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
Dates Referenced: Aššur-etel-ilāni.01.11.26 ?
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2025-10-16 at 10:21:29	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2025-10-12 at 14:21:24	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:48:15	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2005-04-25 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Englund, Robert K.; Fitzgerald, Madeleine; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Peterson, Jeremiah; Veldhuis, Niek; Zimmermann, Lynn-Salammbô	Penn Museum	CDLI	Approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Penn Museum (587281) (587281)
Electronic Babylonian Library (CBS.13707) (CBS.13707)

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Cite this Artifacts

“PBS 13, 83 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 16, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P268720.

PBS 13, 83 artifact entry (No. P268720). (2025, October 16). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P268720 (Original work published 2005)

PBS 13, 83 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P268720 (Accessed: February 15, 2026).

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	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P268720},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“PBS 13, 83 Artifact Entry.” (2005) 2025. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 16, 2025. https://cdli.earth/P268720.

PBS 13, 83 artifact entry (No. P268720). (2025, October 16). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P268720 (Original work published 2005)

PBS 13, 83 artifact entry (2025) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P268720 (Accessed: February 15, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-15]},
	year = {2025},
	month = {oct 16},
	title = {PBS 13, 83 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P268720},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P268720},
}

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